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Article #257Perl problems/bugs
From: Tony Sanders
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1989 23:58
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1989 23:58
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I'm having a coupla problems with perl RT/AIX 2.2.1. Perl 3.0 is the
first version I've used so I know not if this is new:
sanders:pts0 % perl -v
$Header: perly.c,v 3.0.1.2 89/11/17 15:34:42 lwall Locked $
Patch level: 6
1) The complete.pl that comes with perl reads:
...
sub Complete {
local ($prompt) = shift (@_);
local ($c, $cmp, $l, $r, $ret, $return, $test, $x);
@_ = sort @_;
...
However the "@_ = sort @_;" seems to nuke the @_ array, leaving
it null. I worked around this by simply changing all @_ references
in the sub to @x and that works great. Bug or feature?
2) When I do a "make test" various tests fail:
cmd.subval, op.dbm, op.index, op.mkdir, op.pack,
op.read, op.sort, op.substr, op.vec
like:
sanders:pts0 % perl cmd.subval
syntax error in file cmd.subval at line 91, next 2 tokens ");"
Execution aborted due to compilation errors.
I found that line 91:
return (1,2,3);
when changed to:
return(1,2,3); # no space after keyword
works DFK.
This is also true for the other tests mostly print statements.
Again, bug or feature that you cannot have a space after a keyword?
-- sanders
"Submitted for your approval,
A lone programmer, enticed away from a high tech company in Dallas, journeys
to Austin in search of cutting edge hardware and software. Instead finds
himself trapped in an cubicle with a one way ticket to . . .
the AIX Zone. -- Anon (w/BIG :-)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!romp!auschs!d75!cello!sanders.uucp!sanders From: sanders@sanders.uucp (Tony Sanders) Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs Subject: Perl problems/bugs Message-ID: <3063@cello.UUCP> Date: 27 Nov 89 23:58:04 GMT Sender: news@cello.UUCP Reply-To: sanders@sanders.uucp (Tony Sanders) Lines: 43